We needed a dedicated rescuer workqueue for gc anyways... and gc was
conceptually a dedicated thread, just one that wasn't running all the
time. Switch it to a dedicated thread to make the code a bit more
straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
At one point we did do fancy asynchronous waiting stuff with
bucket_wait, but that's all gone (and bucket_wait is used a lot less
than it used to be). So use the standard primitives.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The old asynchronous discard code was really a relic from when all the
allocation code was asynchronous - now that allocation runs out of a
dedicated thread there's no point in keeping around all that complicated
machinery.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The alloc kthread should've been using try_to_freeze() - and also there
was the potential for the alloc kthread to get woken up after it had
shut down, which would have been bad.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
The tracepoints were reworked to be more sensible, and fixed a null
pointer deref in one of the tracepoints.
Converted some of the pr_debug()s to tracepoints - this is partly a
performance optimization; it used to be that with DEBUG or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG pr_debug() was an empty macro; but at some point it
was changed to an empty inline function.
Some of the pr_debug() statements had rather expensive function calls as
part of the arguments, so this code was getting run unnecessarily even
on non debug kernels - in some fast paths, too.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
The main fix is that bch_allocator_thread() wasn't waiting on
garbage collection to finish (if invalidate_buckets had set
ca->invalidate_needs_gc); we need that to make sure the allocator
doesn't spin and potentially block gc from finishing.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Took out some nested functions, and fixed some more checkpatch
complaints.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
